Rogers Stan - Cape St Marys guitar chord

Cape St. Mary's     3/4     Stan Rogers     Otto P. Kelland

For the Family, Folk Traditions, Recorded in 1982 (R002)

Standard Tuning

        / D    /          / G             /

Take me / ba - / ck to my / western boat, /

       / G        / A        / D      /

Let me / fish off / Cape St. / Mary's./

          / G        / D

Where the / hog-down / sail, and

    / D         / G     /

The / fog horns / wail, /

        / D            / G               / A      

With my / friends, the / Browns, and the / Clear -

/ G   /

/ ys, /

       / G        /          /  D      / /

Let me / fish off / Cape St. / Mary's. / /

       / D    /        / G      /

Let me / fe - /  el my / dory lift, /

       / G          /        / D

To the / broad At - / lantic / combers.

          / D        / G               /            /  

Where the / tide rip / swirls, and the / wild ducks /

G

whirl, and

    / D       / G         / A     / G     / /

Old / Neptune / calls the / num - / bers, / /

           / G         /        / D        / /

'Neath the / wild At - / lantic / combers. / /

       / D    /       / G           /

Let me / sa - / il up / Golden Bay, /

        / G        / A       / D         /

With my / oilskins / all a - / streamin'./  

         / G       / D               /           / G  

From the / thunder / squalls, when I / hauled my / trawls, and

   / D        / G       / A      / G    / /

My / old Cape / Ann a - / glea - / min' / /

        / G        /         / D          / /

With my / oilskins / all a - / streamin', / / and

       / D    /         / G             /

Let me / vi - / ew that / rugged shore, /

         / G       / A       / D        /  

With the / beaches / all a - / glisten, /

         / G      / D                 /           / G

With the / caplin / spawn, where from / dusk till / dawn,

    / D         / G              / A      / G   / /

You / bait your / trawl, and you / list - / en, / /

       / G       /         / D        / /      

To the / under - / tow a - / hissin', / / and

       / D    /          / G               /

When I / re - / ach that / last big shoal, /

          / G            / A         / D       /

Where the / groundswells / break a - / sunder, /

          / G          / D            /         / G

Where the / wild sands / roll, to the / surge's / toll,

       / D    / G       / A    / G   / /

Let me / be a / man and / take / it, / /

        / G    /          / D        / /

When my / dory / fails to / make it. / /

   / D            /            / G                /

Oh / take me ba - / ck to that / snug green cove, /

          / G         / A        / D        /

Where the / seas roll / up their / thunder, /

      / G      / D            /              / G

There / let me / rest, in the / Earth's cool / breast,

          / D           / G         / A     / G    / /

Where the / stars shine / out their / won - / der, / / and

    / G         /          / D      /      / /

The / seas roll / up their / thun - / der. / /

Outro: Two verses melody (instrumental) then fade